Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu and Fu Luo questioned Old Zheng about the second-generation “Freud,” and Old Zheng identified the missing “Fluorvosamine” as the likeliest match. Fluoxetine revealed that the woman had possessed a near-deity divine rank before becoming president, leading Lin Yu to suspect she had merged with an authority in Mist Island.

• Lin Yu pressured Old Zheng to reveal that the second-generation “Freud” was likely “Fluorvosamine,” his former patient.
• Fluoxetine exposed Old Zheng’s close personal history with his patients, including a photo he kept in his wallet, while Fu Luo and Old Zheng traded accusations about their past relationships.
• Lin Yu asked how “Fluorvosamine” could have changed her appearance so completely, and Fu Luo described a machine that could transform people into spirit lifeforms.
• Fluoxetine said the second-generation president had not become a spirit lifeform, but had possessed a divine rank close to a deity’s while still at Tier 3.
• Lin Yu connected “Fluorvosamine’s” disappearance at Mist Island with the Authority of Life and asked whether she had merged with an authority there.

Lin Yu, Old Zheng, Fu Luo, and Fluoxetine pieced together that the Second Generation Freud was Fluorvosamine, who had transformed after gaining Soul Authority and taken on Old Zheng’s identity as her model. They concluded she had remained a Hooligan and only pretended to be a Scholar, leaving Old Zheng to defend his influence on her.

• Fluoxetine and Old Zheng reasoned that Fluorvosamine’s altered soul could have resulted from Soul Authority, which she may have encountered while investigating Old Zheng’s death on Mist Island.
• Lin Yu concluded that Fluorvosamine had become the Second Generation Freud after merging with Soul Authority, changing her appearance and soul and taking a new name.
• Fu Luo suggested Fluorvosamine might have a Unique Profession, but Old Zheng insisted she had genuinely told him she was a Hooligan.
• Fluoxetine pointed out that no one had ever seen the Second Generation Freud use a Scholar’s basic ability, leading Lin Yu and Old Zheng to realize she had kept her Hooligan Profession and imitated a Scholar with specialized items.
• Lin Yu recognized that Fluorvosamine had copied Old Zheng’s appearance and habits to establish herself as his rightful successor, then accused Old Zheng of ruining a perfectly good girl.
• Old Zheng apologized before arguing that Fluorvosamine had already been a delinquent before she became his patient.

Lin Yu returned to the International Convention Center to report his findings to Order, but Pen Name intercepted him and revealed she had seen through Paper Kite’s disguise. She admitted she had misled Order’s investigation while independently uncovering the truth behind the Player Mutual Aid Society murders, and said she had done it for Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu left Old Zheng to process the Second Generation Freud’s condition and decided to return to Order with his intelligence about the Emperor and the Diviner.
• On his way to the hotel, Lin Yu met Pen Name, who was watching the entrance from a tree and had recognized Paper Kite inside as an impostor.
• Pen Name said she suspected Lin Yu had helped Paper Kite kill Yu Linling, but would not report her suspicions to Order.
• Pen Name explained that she had sabotaged Order’s investigation team and sent Knight, Seagull, and Xi Chen after false leads.
• Pen Name told Lin Yu she had independently learned nearly the full truth about the Player Mutual Aid Society murders and had done so for his benefit.

Lin Yu questioned Pen Name about the truth behind the Player Mutual Aid Society’s killings, and she revealed several conspiracies while warning that he had little time to investigate. She left him to identify the hidden organization’s killer, who was currently posing as an Order member.

• Lin Yu rejected Pen Name’s offer at first, but agreed to hear her terms after she said she had destroyed evidence and made uncovering the truth much harder.
• Pen Name revealed that the First Generation Jung, acting on a Marauder commission, had killed Iced Americano to help Ling Xian and protect the Marauders’ real assets, Monica and Penglai.
• Pen Name explained that the First Generation Jung had tried to seize the Second Generation Freud’s Authority and was killed by her, then disclosed that she had witnessed the events herself.
• Pen Name said the killer of Hongmu and the other two was a different person who had impersonated Paper Kite and belonged to the Hidden Organization behind the bounty on Lin Yu and Gao Shan’s death.
• Pen Name said the killer’s identity was obscured by special means, and Lin Yu concluded that the killer was currently posing as an Order member.

Zuo Xi gave Lin Yu the truth about the Player Mutual Aid Society and offered him three wishes as part of her advancement ritual. Lin Yu used his first wish to ask her to investigate Fluoxetine and help kill her if he could not handle her himself, and Zuo Xi gave him the information she had gathered.

• After explaining the murders in the Player Mutual Aid Society, Zuo Xi gave Lin Yu three golden fountain pens as three wishes, explaining that granting them would help her master Authority.
• Lin Yu accepted the wishes and told Zuo Xi that his first was for her to help him kill Fluoxetine, but only after investigating her and giving him a chance to deal with her himself.
• Zuo Xi agreed and produced a folder containing the information she had gathered about Fluoxetine.
• Zuo Xi warned Lin Yu that Fluoxetine's past had been deliberately erased and that even Order had few reliable records of her.
• Zuo Xi said she had investigated Fluoxetine because she took an interest in people besides Lin Yu, and Lin Yu denied thinking the world revolved around him.

Lin Yu returned to the hotel and told Good Night that he and the Feng Shui Master had stopped the Diviner from freeing Demon Ancestor Gantuo, but their actions had pushed Emperor into an alliance with the Diviner. Good Night began gathering Order’s leaders so Lin Yu could report the intelligence to them.

• Zuo Xi gave Lin Yu a blue folder and left, promising to investigate Fluoxetine further.
• Lin Yu returned to the hotel, reassured Good Night that no one had spotted him, and learned that Paper Kite was asleep and exhausted.
• Good Night explained that Ren Gu had detained Penglai and introduced a new anonymous voting system, which put Shang Gen, Monica, and Mikan in the top three; the Professor had stopped Grandmaster from arresting Monica without evidence.
• Good Night told Lin Yu that Loquat Candy had been transferred on a secret mission by the Professor and the Secretary, with Grandmaster’s approval.
• Lin Yu reported that he and the Feng Shui Master had thwarted the Diviner’s plan in the Prison Mountain Realm, that Cold Cicada had manipulated Penglai’s first-round votes, and that Emperor was the Diviner’s true partner.
• Good Night asked Lin Yu to wait while he summoned Grandmaster and Ren Gu and opened a call with the Professor and the Secretary.

At Order’s high-level meeting, Lin Yu reported that he and “Feng Shui Master” had stopped “Diviner’s” scheme in the Prison Mountain Realm and warned that “Diviner” was preparing an all-out offensive with help from a genuine Deity called “Emperor.” The senior members debated how “Emperor” could reach Shenzhen, and Lin Yu concluded that “Cold Cicada” was not the key to his power but was instead connected to the God of Shadows.

• Professor and Secretary accepted that Lin Yu’s unauthorized operation had produced a good outcome, while Paper Kite said he had reflected on his actions.
• Secretary turned the meeting to the intelligence Lin Yu had brought back from the Prison Mountain Realm.
• Lin Yu reported that “Diviner” had planned to use the Prison Mountain Realm operation to weaken Order and the Night Watcher, and that destroying the formation had pushed “Emperor” to join Diviner’s offensive.
• Ren Gu and the others questioned how a Deity could influence the Real World despite the Divine Realm’s wall of rules, while Ren Gu said Order had been unable to find Cold Cicada.
• Lin Yu argued that Cold Cicada was the God of Shadows’ Chosen of God, not the conduit for Emperor’s different authority, and Professor said that would explain why Cold Cicada was so hard to track.

Order’s leaders debated the Diviner’s plan to bring the Emperor into Shenzhen and refused to abandon the city’s residents. They agreed that relocating Shenzhen’s population could be a last resort, while the General remained unable to help because he was occupied with a mission vital to the world’s safety.

• Lin Yu learned that Order would not target Cold Cicada, but he had brought the Emperor and the Marauders to the leaders’ attention, making Copper Furnace’s existence likely to surface.
• The Secretary told Order’s leaders that unusual activity in an Unknown Divine Kingdom supported the possibility that the Emperor could descend into Shenzhen.
• The Grandmaster refused to retreat and insisted that Order’s duty was to protect Shenzhen’s 18.2 million residents.
• The Professor clarified that his last-resort plan was to relocate Shenzhen’s residents, and the Grandmaster accepted the idea while the Secretary questioned whether it was possible.
• Order’s leaders considered whether the General could intervene, but Ren Gu explained that the Wall of Rules constrained him, and the Professor and Grandmaster said his current work concerned the safety of the entire world.

After learning that General could not support them against Emperor, Lin Yu urged the group to seek help from Administrator. Gu Mo privately explained the dangers of Lin Yu impersonating Shen Bingmiao in a direct confrontation and revealed that General was using his Divine Kingdom to seal the Reality Loophole, leaving Lin Yu shaken by the threat to the world.

• Professor said they could not count on General and needed a plan to face Emperor without deity-level support.
• Yin Lan suggested asking Administrator to help, and Ren Gu agreed that they should at least try.
• Lin Yu supported asking Administrator, saying he believed she would be willing and could deal with Emperor, so Gu Mo took him aside to talk privately.
• Gu Mo explained that she had wanted Lin Yu to impersonate Shen Bingmiao as a deterrent, but worried he would be exposed or attacked by Diviner and Emperor during a direct confrontation.
• Gu Mo revealed that General was plugging the Reality Loophole with his Divine Kingdom and could not risk acting too much; Lin Yu was shaken to learn the loophole existed.

Lin Yu learned that General had been secretly sealing a passage between the Real World and the Divine Realm, then explained his plan to impersonate Senior Sister and borrow the God of Games and Rules’ authorities for the crisis in Shenzhen. He intended to use Zhu Ming’s help and Exclusive item to make the borrowed powers appear as though he commanded them, but the plan remained untested.

• Gu Mo told Lin Yu that the Reality Loophole connected the Real World to the Divine Realm and that General kept it sealed, so the truth had been kept secret to prevent panic.
• Gu Mo explained why Lin Yu had been trusted with the information, citing Shen Bingmiao, Old Du, General, and his own confidence in Lin Yu’s resolve.
• Lin Yu said the deity-level strength he planned to use in Shenzhen was not General’s, but the God of Games and Rules’ authorities, which he would borrow while impersonating Senior Sister.
• Lin Yu explained that he could enlist Player through Zhu Ming and temporarily wield both authorities using Senior Sister’s access to Rule and the Guest Appearance Invitation.
• Lin Yu told Gu Mo that Zhu Ming’s Exclusive item, combined with his Fragment of Fate, could change borrowed authority into commanded authority and help him stand against Emperor.

Lin Yu told Gu Mo how Zhu Ming’s exclusive item worked and why it could let him wield Authority, revealing that Zhu Ming had a fallen Deity among her Summoned Creatures. Gu Mo recognized Zhu Ming’s potential threat, but Lin Yu insisted that the information was meant to be shared with Order and asked Gu Mo to report it.

• Gu Mo questioned Lin Yu about Zhu Ming’s exclusive item, and Lin Yu explained that its crafting required three willingly offered, high-ranking Soul Fragments tied to powerful emotions.
• Lin Yu explained that the item linked Zhu Ming and her Summoned Creatures, letting him borrow them, including a fallen Deity, and combine their power with other beings to gain a Divine Rank capable of wielding Authority.
• Gu Mo said her Unique Profession left her without advancement trials or usable Items, but that she had benefited more from it than she would from an exclusive item.
• Gu Mo judged Zhu Ming’s potential threat to be comparable to Fishing Man and said Order’s current rating of her was too low.
• Gu Mo offered to keep Lin Yu’s information quiet, but Lin Yu said Zhu Ming had authorized disclosure and asked Gu Mo to report what she had learned.

Lin Yu convinced Gu Mo to report Zhu Ming’s Tier 3 advancement and Exclusive item, [A Brand-New Name and Home], to Order’s allied organizations. When Zhu Ming asked Tengshe to share the same information with the Night Watcher, he complied but began to suspect she was trying to turn him against his organization.

• Lin Yu explained that Zhu Ming wanted information about her new Exclusive item made public, and Gu Mo agreed to update Order’s records.
• Carrier Pigeon posted Tengshe’s report that the Beast Master had reached Tier 3 and crafted [A Brand-New Name and Home], prompting questions from Night Watcher members.
• Tengshe ignored the group’s requests for an explanation because Zhu Ming herself had supplied the information and asked him to share it.
• Tengshe wondered whether Zhu Ming had engineered the disclosure to make the Night Watcher distrust him and rope him into joining the outlaws.

Lin Yu used the belief generated by spreading false intelligence about Zhu Ming’s Exclusive item to make the item’s crafting recipe real, conserving most of the belief. After gathering the required Soul Fragments, he began crafting [A Brand-New Name and Home].

• Chongming privately asked Carrier Pigeon whether the intelligence about the Beast Master could be false, and Carrier Pigeon reassured her that Order had independently confirmed it.
• Order’s Professor and Secretary cross-checked Gu Mo’s information and decided to circulate it to their branches and frontline personnel in Shenzhen.
• Lin Yu gathered belief from the Night Watchers and Order, then used Make It Real to create the crafting requirements for [A Brand-New Name and Home] rather than the item itself.
• Lin Yu recognized that Meng Qingjun’s [Heavenly Fox White Tail] could provide a Soul Fragment containing the pain of parting and touched by Authority.
• Lin Yu asked Old Zheng for a Soul Fragment containing unfulfilled longing, and Old Zheng quickly sent him one.
• With Tengshe’s fragment, material from Meng Qingjun’s tail, and Old Zheng’s fragment, Lin Yu began crafting [A Brand-New Name and Home].

Lin Yu created [A Brand-New Name and Home], an item that let him and his Summoned Creatures share abilities and gave him genuine Tier 3 status while he held it. As Shenzhen’s battle approached, he prepared to confront the mole in 'Order' himself, while Captain Good Night was left to command the others.

• Lin Yu used three Soul Fragments to create [A Brand-New Name and Home], which let him borrow his Summoned Creatures’ abilities and Divine Ranks, with limits on energy use and effectiveness.
• Holding the nameplate gave Lin Yu genuine Tier 3 status, strengthening his confidence ahead of the coming battle in Shenzhen.
• Lin Yu considered whether the identity of 'Zhu Ming' might open a separate Heart Domain, but treated the idea as speculation.
• Lin Yu used the Rule backend on [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] to block signals in the room, making Captain Good Night believe the hotel had lost reception.
• Lin Yu told Captain Good Night that the 'Marauders' would likely act within the next couple of days and asked him to oversee the operation as commander-in-chief.
• Lin Yu told Captain Good Night to inform Li Hua that he would expose the mole in 'Order' the next day, and might kill him outright.

Lin Yu checked into a budget hotel and recalled a childhood trip to Shu Province with Lin Zhao, remembering her unconventional lessons and their time together. The memories remained hazy, but he fell asleep with the trip's fragments in mind as he prepared for the Marauders' expected move tomorrow.

• Lin Yu left the hotel where Order was staying, reasoning that he could now move openly as Paper Kite and that the Marauders were unlikely to spare anyone to follow him.
• Lin Yu found a budget hotel, checked in, and settled into his room for the night.
• Lin Yu remembered that his last trip before entering the death game had been to Shu Province with Lin Zhao, when he was a child.
• Lin Yu recalled Lin Zhao insisting on enjoying their travels, testing his knowledge, and teaching him that deception could sometimes be useful.
• Lin Yu remembered visiting Wuhou Shrine and Panda Valley with Lin Zhao, including their attempt to take a photo beside a panda.

Lin Yu examined a manuscript Zuo Xi had prepared using the Authority of stories and entered a fictionalized account of Fluoxetine’s past. The story opened on Fluoxetine as a child in a stark experimental facility, leaving Lin Yu to wonder how she had ended up there.

• Lin Yu reflected on his memories, his lack of a Heart Domain, and the coming Shenzhen event before deciding to investigate Zuo Xi’s findings about Fluoxetine.
• Lin Yu opened a manuscript from Zuo Xi and discovered its writing carried an unknown Authority that pulled his consciousness into an information-like space.
• Zuo Xi’s phantom explained that she had used the God of Stories’ Authority and her Writer ability to present scattered clues about Fluoxetine as a nonfiction-style story.
• Zuo Xi vanished, and Lin Yu observed a windowless room in an experimental facility from an outside perspective.
• Lin Yu saw twenty unnervingly calm children seated at desks and recognized Fluoxetine among them as the girl marked 001.

Lin Yu watched Fluoxetine excel in a drug-and-study trial, then learned that the researchers identified her as five-year-old Lin Yin in a secret project. The account added a third, conflicting version of Fluoxetine’s childhood, and Lin Yu continued watching without knowing which version was true.

• Masked adults delivered a capsule, water, and a booklet to each child, and Fluoxetine finished the study material first.
• Fluoxetine completed a written test with an overall score of 95 and left the testing room without showing emotion.
• Lin Yu saw researchers in a control room discuss Fluoxetine’s performance and read her file, which listed her name as Lin Yin and recommended moving her to the next stage.
• Lin Yu suspected the project involved drugs and genes, but questioned whether the story was reliable and noted that it contradicted the accounts of Bai You and Wang Xiaoling.

Lin Yu watched Fluoxetine reject a drug and speak to him through a mirror, where she explained the purpose of the Human Evolution Research Institute. She confirmed that the institute’s experiments were connected to the Death game.

• Lin Yin spat out the capsule she had been given, washed it away, and cleaned her mouth, causing her lively emotions to return.
• Fluoxetine appeared in the mirror as a teenage girl and told Lin Yu that the story had reached her personal account.
• Fluoxetine explained that the Human Evolution Research Institute selected gifted children and developed a learning program to help geniuses master prerequisite knowledge faster.
• Fluoxetine said the institute’s drug suppressed emotions to improve learning efficiency and that she had completed nearly all university-level courses by age five.
• Lin Yu asked whether the project was connected to the Death game, and Fluoxetine confirmed that it was.

Lin Yu learned that Lin Yin had recognized the Death game as the threat behind the secret human experimentation project and had chosen to destroy the base. Lin Yin’s memories showed her escaping her room and turning the underwater facility into a massacre, driven not by a desire for freedom but by the pleasure of violence.

• Lin Yu concluded that the project’s practical purpose was to accelerate human technology against the supernatural threat posed by the Death game, and Lin Yin confirmed his theory.
• Lin Yin explained that the Death game’s seal on her mind had loosened during a previous version’s Game endgame, allowing her to understand the director’s motives and join the Psychology Society.
• Lin Yin told Lin Yu that he was about to see how she destroyed the project, then the mirror shattered and revealed her younger self in the base.
• Lin Yin broke a light fixture, shorted its wires to trigger an alarm, and ambushed two staff members who entered her room.
• Lin Yin took the staff members’ keys and firearms, killed more people, and set off a chain of violence that plunged the underwater base into disaster.
• Lin Yu watched Lin Yin act with growing cheerfulness as she killed and destroyed, recognizing the antisocial impulse behind her actions.

Lin Yu witnessed Fluoxetine recount how she escaped the underwater base, killed her adoptive parents, and fled psychiatric confinement before joining the Death game. Back in the inn, he secured Zuo Xi’s manuscript and asked Old Zheng to teach Mental Power to the other Summoned Creatures, then began questioning him about his time in America.

• Fluoxetine told Lin Yu she was rescued by a cruise ship, adopted by an American couple, and later killed them for their inheritance and to avoid being confined.
• Fluoxetine explained that Zheng Jianshen evaluated her through an opaque pane of glass before she killed people and escaped the psychiatric hospital.
• Fluoxetine said she returned to her birth country, filled the blank in her life through the Death game, and found a deity and companions she believed in.
• Lin Yu awoke in the inn as the Manuscript Paper’s ink became readable and recognized it as a handwritten story from Zuo Xi’s collection.
• Lin Yu put the manuscript away, practiced the Heart Sutra technique, and summoned Old Zheng as a glowing brain.
• Lin Yu told Old Zheng to teach Mental Power to the other Summoned Creatures and asked him to confirm details about his experiences studying in America.